Postal History: GB 1943 Cover Sent To The Viscount Trenchard, From Private Secretary To King Fascinating cover, address to the Marshall of the Royal Air Force

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POSTAL HISTORY: GB 1943 COVER SENT TO THE VISCOUNT TRENCHARD, FROM PRIVATE SECRETARY TO KING Fascinating cover, address to the Marshall of the Royal Air Force, The Viscount Trenchard. Hugh Montague Trenchard was a British Military Officer, and is affectionately known as the 'Father of the Royal Air Force'. He learnt to fly in 1912 and then served under the likes of Churchill, was the Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police in the 1930's and during this and later became one of the recognised early advocates for strategic bombing. The cover has been sent from the Private secretary to the King, which at this time would have been Alan Lascelles. Cover has double red CDS for LONDON SW1 OFFICIAL PAID and further purple cachet to lower left insignia for GVI with Private Secretary to the King written underneath. To rear the Royal Coat of Arms is seen, lightly embossed in red.